Accessibility engineer/tech lead at Mozilla. Father, husband, pianist/keyboardist, tech enthusiast. @jcsteh@aus.social
Joined March 2009
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Alright. I'm now @jcsteh@aus.social.
Thinking about giving this whole Mastodon thing a try, but even figuring out what instance to use is a challenge i can't get past. Fosstodon is probably the closest match, but free/open source isn't my entire identity. It feels weird to have your identity tied to one group.
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Thinking about giving this whole Mastodon thing a try, but even figuring out what instance to use is a challenge i can't get past. Fosstodon is probably the closest match, but free/open source isn't my entire identity. It feels weird to have your identity tied to one group.
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Jamie Teh retweeted
19 Nov 2022
A few months ago I walked into a music store and a friend there showed me this new @Casio_USA CT-S1000V keyboard. It really blew my mind. So cool and so fun. Type in your own words using their app- enjoy a ton of built in phrases- lots of vocal sound choices. HAD TO HAVE ONE!!
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19 Nov 2022
My 11-year son just said this at dinner:
“Taxes are the subscription to your country, and childhood is the free trial.”
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18 Nov 2022
I’ve written a column about the death of social networks which probably won’t be out until next month — I’ve asked them if they can put it online earlier — but here are two paragraphs I’d like to share regardless:
ALT Witnessing what looks like the demise of Twitter actually hurts because it is the demolition of somewhere I have experienced meaningful beginnings and endings. It is like watching a youth club being torn down or a library burning. One of the stories of the late twentieth and early 21st centuries in Britain has been the theft and destruction of public spaces: the sale of playing fields, the closure of parks, the removal of water foundations and public toilets, the privatisation and gating of roads where once anyone could walk. What Elon Musk is doing to Twitter is the virtual version of that and that’s why this column could not be a cold exploration of internet history or business decisions. For those of us who found new kinds of life and new sources of friendship on Twitter, it’s all too personal.
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18 Nov 2022
Here's our story on today @ Twitter, with @RMac18 @MikeIsaac & @Kellen_Browning nytimes.com/2022/11/18/techn…
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17 Nov 2022
This interpretation of what’s going on with Musk is pretty much dead on.
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17 Nov 2022
I've been using the Firefox accessibility cache thing for months now through the flag, haven't heard an instance of "loading document...." from #NVDASR since, even on larger populated pages. Think a lot of folks will be switching back to it once this rolls out to stable enabled.
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This thing is good. As fast as chrome with screen readers while it's on. At least in Firefox: I haven't tried it very much inside Thunderbird.
I'm super excited to announce that Cache the World, our re-architecture of the Firefox accessibility engine to significantly improve performance for users of accessibility tools such as screen readers, is now enabled by default in @FirefoxNightly! blog.mozilla.org/accessibili…
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16 Nov 2022
Accessibility is very important to us.
We’re pleased to announce that Cache the World, the re-architecture of the Firefox accessibility engine is now enabled by default for all @FirefoxNightly users!
blog.mozilla.org/accessibili…
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I'm super excited to announce that Cache the World, our re-architecture of the Firefox accessibility engine to significantly improve performance for users of accessibility tools such as screen readers, is now enabled by default in @FirefoxNightly! blog.mozilla.org/accessibili…
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Jamie Teh retweeted
10 Nov 2022
Here is my working draft on why I think the Mastodon model has the potential of curing the worst evils of social media and creating a workable public sphere: terikanefield.com/can-the-ma…
You can find me here on Mastodon:
@Teri_Kanefield@mstdn.social
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10 Nov 2022
Word on the street is that as the Twitter revamp continues they're going to change the name of the service to Bitter.
But don't worry, at least the logo won't change, they'll still continue giving us the Bird.
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3 Nov 2022
If you've upgraded to macOS Ventura, you might've encountered a bug where VoiceOver's quick nav/rotor don't work as expected in Firefox. We've got a fix in Nightly and it should hit Beta soon :) bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bu…
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So a dialog popped up saying Windows needed to restart to update, with restart and remind me later buttons. I pressed escape, which restarted, interrupting my work, because it totally makes sense for escape to restart instead of remind me later. Then the update failed... again.
Here's the thing, Windows. I don't want to restart to apply the Windows 11 update because the last 30 times I've tried, it's failed and rolled back. And then Windows downloads the same update again, and around and around we go. It's a good thing I don't have a download quota.
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Jamie Teh retweeted
7 Nov 2022
I hate computers.
“As soon as we realized this attack is possible, we warned people in industry as well as Wi-Fi chip manufacturers that this leakage of privacy-sensitive information is real,” Professor Abedi said.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/can-you…
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“As soon as we realized this attack is possible, we warned people in industry as well as Wi-Fi chip manufacturers that this leakage of privacy-sensitive information is real,” Professor Abedi said.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/can-you…
5 Nov 2022
Nicknamed Wi-Peep, the device can “see” through walls, surreptitiously identifying the locations of smart watches, phones, laptops and the like, with speed and accuracy.
What does it mean for your privacy?
trib.al/H5ahcNp
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7 Nov 2022
Elon Musk said permanent bans shouldn’t happen, free speech is guaranteed and comedy is now allowed on Twitter.
Until Kathy Griffin, a comedian, used her free speech to tease him and then he permanently banned her.
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